Error: Informix/onbar restore on UNIX/Linux fails with "*E* backup not found for:"

Error: Informix/onbar restore on UNIX/Linux fails with "*E* backup not found for:"

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If the screen output of onbar -r shows

BSA_qr: Interrupted system call

and subsequently

*E* backup not found for: 27154:1327429857

Cause:

the reason might be the setting of the environment variables

BAR_ALARM

BAR_TEST_ALARM

BAR_TIMEOUT

To proof this, look into $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/bar_act.log.

If you find any "suspicious" time differences between the "successfully forked" Message

for a PID (here 8952) and the XBSA error Message for that PID, the timeout environment

variable setting is the reason. Example from bar_act.log:

2012-02-06 09:43:23 8952  8946 Process 8952  8946 successfully forked.

2012-02-06 09:43:23 8952  8946 Successfully connected to Storage Manager.

2012-02-06 09:47:23 8952  8946 XBSA Error: (BSAGetObject) This object has not been backed up.

The time difference is 240 seconds (09:47:23 minus 09:43:23 = 4 minutes), which is the Default

setting for all Informix timeout variables.

Looking at the setting of the environment variables

env | grep BAR

shows

BAR_ALARM=240

BAR_TEST_ALARM=240

BAR_TIMEOUT=240

Solution

The recommendation for the setting of the variables is 1200 (= 20 minutes).

Export the variable settings to the environment of the onbar call before you call it.

Example for Korn-Shell and BASH:

export BAR_ALARM=1200

export BAR_TEST_ALARM=1200

export BAR_TIMEOUT=1200

onbar -r